Archive for the 'Reviews' Category

Page 2 of 2

Acer Laptops

Acer Laptops Review

Aspire 5735 4624

The need.

I need a laptop to watch movie, surf the internet and do my assignments

Namely

VLC Media Player

Itunes

Mozilla Firefox

Ms Word

MS Excel

I want my laptop to be  decent in opening these applications, responsive and well cheap

With my computer knowledge i came down to

2 gb ram …the processor did not really matter to me as it never does,,,,what matter is the RAM,the more RAM you have the faser you get.

100-200 gb hdd As these are standard these days

A dvd writer (i’d like to back up my data  and burn a few movies now and then)

A Keypad in the keyboard should be nice…. A lot of excel is involved in reservoir engineering calculation..Al full fledged key board  will be a advantage

It should look good…My last laptop Sahara laptop was poked to be as use less as me (Ouch!)

Wifi should be there…my sahara robbed me of a wifi

The Answer

Make way for Acer Aspire….

It looks so high class …bluish cover,  polished glossy screen, man this bastard is a looker.

A perfect solution to my question

2 gb ram

160 gb hdd

Intel Pentium  dual core …(what ever it means)

A wifi with a signal up (apparently the signal remains up,,,daah)

A wide screen  with a glossy rich look and  wow now its as good looking as me (:P)

The draw backs

Windows Vista… I could have used a XP or a Ubuntu

The Plastic…feels like a bit cranky…I can live with that

The mouse buttons on the keyboard…they click too loudly

Apart from these I love my Lappy.

I could have used a webcam but then i can live with out a webcam and I have hardly had a webcam chat with anyone till now,,,, Aussie internet sucks

this is how my lappy looks

The battery life is decent enough and because its been over a year it seems to be coming down.

See a lappy is at least 5-6 years of investment so better chose something according to your needs.I chose mine according to my needs,,,,,if you play games extensively on your laptop then you might want to chose this

I chose this because it fit my Pocket and i got everything and I wanted.

I also play quake 3 and tomb raider every now and then on this baby with a very decent frame rate.

So chose..Don’t go for useless things like …O this button does this….this button makes that light glow…these this become redundant after a few hours

If you are a student …do check out the Acer aspire series as it scores better over Dell in terms of looks and neatness

It costs only $299 (USD) at BestBuy which equal to some Rs 12,000..killer or what

Share

Sahara Laptops

Ok Attention all masses..please never ever buy sahara laptops….

Now the details
I got me my sahara laptop model number LE1D just because of the price factor
it cost me around 25K..Well this was 1 year ago and the prices of a laptops started at 35 – 40 K
The configuration was a stupid one ..256 mb ram and a intel celron M processor.
The main purpose of the laptop was to keep it at him and browse the internet using its Network card.
LCD Was better for eyes rather than a CRT and a laptop looks good rather than a desktop

Within 3 months my nightmares started
The network card blew off
well never mind,i gave it to repair in NOIDA where they have their depo
Getting inside the depo is like getting inside a Nuclear power plant,(tight security)
I was checked thrice before i could make it to the reception

It took them 1 week to repair the laptop

Again after two months the same problem arose

Again i had to go the depo….
well remember the security clearance thing..this time i forgot to
mention that i had a ipod…..
while i was returning the gaurd caught my ipod (80 gb Video Ipod)
and said that i was theif and i was stealing the ipod from them .
No matter how hard i tried to convince he just would’nt bulge

So after sitting down for another hour or so it was cleared by the security incharge that
i was not stealing the ipod,he also warned me not to bring the ipod again (HUH!!!)
Man they need to work in a airport,,,we need people like them there

after one week the laptop was repaired again and i had to collect it .
Imagine travelling to one end of the earth to get a laptop under the Delhi May sun
None the less………

In the span of 8 months the laptop was repaired twice and the mother board was replaced twice.
They blamed my broadband internet connection chaps for that,I talked to them and they said that
they have over 1000 connection in my locality and no one has complained of such a peculiar problem
None the less the charged the whole wiring of my connection ,Still ever few weeks my network card wouldd go BOOM!

Well , one fine day when i go there AGAIN ,the receptionist started to ask me of i work here as
i am more regular here than the the employees.I din’t know how to react.As i went in there to give my laptop for
repair i was given the good new that the warranty had expired and i would have to pay for it.

This made me furious,well in a period of 1 year i went there 8 times and still i was not getting my laptop in a proper
working condition,If i pay for the repair ,is there any guarantee that it will not go boom again in a month or so.

The best thing the Sahara chaps could do for me was wave the service charge which was Rs.750,thats it.
They said that they will change the mother board again which will cost me 5K.
I was perplexed.
After a lot of argument they agreed to repair the laptop for the one last time and made me sign an agreement that
this is the last time i am getting it repaired for free and after this they will charge me and i cannot go to court
and stuff like that.

What could i do ?
I signed it and the laptop was repaired and within one week i went and collected it

After a month the network card went atomic again

I cursed the day when i brought this laptop

I had to remain with out internet for more than three months until a friend of mine told me about
“usb network cards”,You just plug it in the usb drive and it starts to act as a Network card.

I brought that for 200 rupees and my internet is working just fine.

Well thats not all,There are more factors for me in hating sahara

1.The battery backup life is less that half an hour ( Good thing that i do not need to make presentaions with it)

2.The laptop heats up like a heater(I run it on a table) it gets very very hot,my hands begin to sweat while typing)

3.The screen is loose (it keeps on shaking)

4.The finger sensing key pad is way out of control ( It just does not obey you ….left is right,you will get used to it )

5.The laptop overheats and shuts down (It just keeps getting better and better!!!)

6.Did i mention about the network card ? ( No comments )

7.Service center people are really lovely,You might want to keep you anger in controll as you will be
coming back to them. (Anger mangement classes for free)

Now a few good words

1. The receptionist looks good you can take her out for coffee or get married. (While waiting for one hour,
all kinds of thoughts start coming to your mind,I though that this was a part of cupids conspiracy,Some how it wants
me to meet this receptionist and wants me to fall in love and get married,If the warranty had not expired
i would have surely married her by now)

2. The AC adaptor,it works like a charm ,has not given me a single blue,A very good one,Working 72 hours straight

3. I am still using it ,i typed the artical in the laptop

In conclusion ,if you want to mentally harrases some one then please give this one as a gift,
But i would not even give it to my enemy

Please don’t buy this one

For those who have already brought it ,My deepest condolence and take joy in the fact that you are not alone,
MISERY LOVES COMPANY!!!!,Spread the word and JON THE CLUB

If some one wants proof, i still have the bills and receipts of my going to the service center ,i will scan it
and put them up for you.

Share

iPod 80 GB Review

Apple iPod 80 GB

I am rewriting my review on apple iPod

I got it in January last year and boy was I happy when I got it. It is a very good looking thing mind you. It is a attention seeker, but has the stamp of apple monopoly all over it

First of all, apple iTunes, it does not let you control you anything, it controls you. it will rearrange you whole music collection to one folder called “my music”, of course there is a option to disable it but, still it is a headache to find all your music collection has moved places

Movies,

You cannot just the popular formats available around, like divx or avi, you can only play mp4 format, where the hell do you get mp4 format movies?

Apples iStore.

For starters, I had never heard of the mp4 format, after googling for a while I found out that the mp4 format was made by apple especially for IPOD with anti piracy features.

Apple monopoly, any one?

Apple Ipod

Apple Ipod

So what happens to your DVD/movie collection?

You have to pay the same price again to get the same movie. JUST GREAT isn’t it?

iStore

Music

If you want to buy some music and directly import it to your iPod this is where you go.

Here each song costs around 99C

Movies

There is no other site which sells legal movies in MP$ format. Your collection is limited to the movies iStore puts up, not a big fan of the Hollywood Eeh? You have no other option. At least you could get some bollywood songs from iStore but not bollywood movies. And the price keeps on varying ranging from 5 to 10$ each.

LUCKY YOU.

Having an iPod is like living in CHINA, No freedom, No religion, Mao is your god (Steve jobs in this case).You just do what you are told

I really hate using the iTunes, my slow laptop has a hard time adjusting to it, it is a resource hugging monster, but I have no other option

And My iPod does not copy the data into it, it sync the data, which means it will only play the music which is present in your computer, you cannot delete any song from your pc or else it is erased form your pc as well.

This also means that for a smooth operation you need to have a hard disk bigger than 80 GB, probably 160 GB, you might also want to back up your data so I will go with 200 GB

Ya the iTunes only work on windows and Mac, no Linux support what so ever included.

As far as the iPod is considered there are no issues as the hardware is beautiful. You will hardly have any issues with it, though the headphones tend to go bad after a few months of listening in full volume.

I would suggest you get yourself a pair of Bose head phones ( you spent 20 K buying this clown so better invest another 5 k to make yourself feel better) Bose head phones and a iPod go together like brad pitt and Angelina jolie

Pretty confusing review huh!

I’ll draw the final lines here

Pros

1. 80 GB attention seeker in your pocket

2. Good sturdy model with no moving parts

3. Pretty sharp LCD with impressive picture quality

4. Good sound quality

5. Doubles up as an 80 GB pen drive in you pocket

6. A good click wheel

Cons

1. iTunes, the most successful monopoly product from apple

2. Sync ….the only way in

3. iStore monopoly, no Hindi movies

4.Not for rough use

5.Tends to get scratched easily

Findings and recommendation

After using it for a year or so I have the following recommendation

Get yourself any iPod but not the Video iPod, the video thing really gets redundant until and unless you really watch so many movies and have that music amount of free time. I just use the iPod for listening music

Any iPod…..Huh?

I got me an iPod shuffle, the teeny tiny one which is less prone to be broken by me (I gave the 80GB monster to my sister who has clean fingernails and a soft neck)

An iPod shuffle with a sennizer headphone.

80 GB of music…you will hardly have the patience to listen to all of them

I went for a 1 GB with 400 of my favorite songs, a good set of jogging headphones and I am good to go

The 80 GB monster is not for me…….I can think it is for some rich girl who has nothing better to do than roam here and there.

Share

Moto Flip

Moto Flip (w220)

(Chota DON)

When you are the black sheep of the family, the last thing you can expect is your demands to be met

In my case it was the demand for a moto razer v3i black (Don).I had seen don “n” number of times and had fallen in love with it. I had asked many of my friends for reviews and they all recommended me against it on the basis of s/w and performance, but they all had to agree on the fact that this was the best looking phones around.

Coming back to the story my dad had pulled the brakes and decided to get me a flap wala phone…no not a moto razer but a moto flip.it was either this or a Nokia 1100.So I had to use it.Its been a year now and I am still using it.

Rest assured my review is a well researched review.

The phone is a clam shelled phone with a radio along with a loud speaker.I has it in black color, but you can also have the option of a silver one. The themes are downloadable, Gprs lets you to browse the net via a browser given in the phone.

There are three icons on the clamshell which lighten up when ever you have a call or a message or your batter is low, quite neat as you do not have to keep opening the flap every time you want to see if you have missed call or a message. Even if you do have missed call, a alert will stat beeping at an interval of 5 – 10 mins indicating that you have a missed call or a sms

The battery life is around 4 hours of you talk continuously (not that well researched) and it lasts comfortable for 3 ½ days. Yes the games are pretty stupid and you are better off not playing them. The sms memory is around 150 and as I do not use any mms, I cannot say anything about that. The speaker quality on the FM is quite good.

Ringtones are downloadable and are pretty loud and clear, there are volume control buttons on the side which help you in increasing and decreasing the volume

Style

If it is not as good looking a moto razer it is not that bad looking either. I love it. I keep opening and closing the flap DON style!! Did some one say Chota don :D

This February this cell phone will celebrate its 2nd bday ,and I will move on to Moto razer V6 maxx Ferrari ,But yes the mot flip will remain my favorite

Sons propose, dads dispose

There are no major issues with the phone,as a matter of fact you will not have any problems with the phone

Pros: Good looking, stylish and fully functional

Cons: The black color is porne to scratches

Share
Support Wikipedia